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An Angola man was sen­tenced Mon­day in Steuben Court to three years of a six year sen­tence after plead­ing guilty to a Class B felony of Crim­i­nal Deviant Con­duct. The plea bar­gain agree­ment with pros­e­cu­tors was reached with 27-year-old Kile Stock­ert, who was also placed on pro­ba­tion for two years. …

A rare find is on dis­play right now at the Early Ford V-8 Foun­da­tion Museum in Auburn. A rare stain­less steel Ford, that dates back to the 1930s, and is so shiny it’s con­sid­ered a mir­ror on wheels, is one of six 1936 stain­less steel Fords pro­duced by the Ford …

Blood is always in short sup­ply, or so it seems. The sum­mer sea­son, with vaca­tions and folks trav­el­ing, cre­ates an addi­tional strain on sup­plies. How­ever, the Amer­i­can Red Cross Blood­mo­bile held last Thurs­day in Bryan at the Bryan Knights of Colum­bus Hall was a big suc­cess, with 98 units col­lected. …

The state Pub­lic Util­i­ties Com­mis­sion has approved three local highway-rail grade cross­ing projects in our area. The Michi­gan South­ern Rail­road will upgrade the cir­cuitry at grade cross­ings at Fifth and David­son streets in the city of Defi­ance, and at U.S. 127 in Cecil and Main Street at Ohio 49 in …

Edward Bohn begins work today as direc­tor of the Pauld­ing County Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency. Bohn replaces Randy Shaf­fer, who was fired by County com­mis­sion­ers in April after serv­ing as EMA direc­tor for more than 18 years.

The Relay for Life of Henry County will take place tonight and tomor­row at the Henry County Fair­grounds in Napoleon. Open­ing cer­e­monies are sched­uled for 6 p.m. Orga­niz­ers have set a goal of rais­ing $216,000. Last year, the relay raised just over $208,000.

Thou­sands of movies, TV shows, music albums and audio books, are now avail­able for mobile and online access to Williams County Pub­lic Library card­hold­ers through a new part­ner­ship with hoopla dig­i­tal. Williams County Pub­lic Library is the 43rd library sys­tem in Ohio to part­ner with hoopla digital.

The Mov­ing Wall-Vietnam Vet­er­ans Memo­r­ial will be at Defi­ance Col­lege begin­ning today through Sun­day to mark the 50th anniver­sary of the Viet­nam War. Today, a motor­cy­cle escort, with more than 1,000 motor­cy­clists will take a few moments to stop by the Defi­ance County War Memo­r­ial at the cour­t­house, where the …

Bryan Police made an arrest on Wednes­day. 45 year old Ben­jamin Tije­rina Jr of 403 Oak­wood Ave in Bryan, was arrested jsut before 9 last night for a Red­light vio­la­tion and for OVI. AFter his arrest, police released him and have made no fur­ther infor­ma­tion available.

Two peo­ple have been named recip­i­ents of the 2014 Dis­tin­guished Alumni Award from North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege. Dr. Jana Bourn of Wauseon, and Travis Star­buck of Sher­wood have been pre­sented with the high­est honor given by the NSCC Alumni Asso­ci­a­tion. Bourn grad­u­ated from NSCC in 1997 with an asso­ciate of …